Drive to AZ!

So yes, basically I think we are crazy, we drove to AZ for the second time in 2 and a half weeks! We planned on leaving Sunday after church, then we heard that there were going to be snow storms, so we decided to leave Monday mid-day. We woke up Sunday, and decided to leave after the 1st hour. When we walked outside it was snowing really hard, and it was freezing. We packed up the car and headed on our way, it took us about 1 and a half hours to get on the road after frantically packing, and finding a last minute home for our fish, thanks Beth! We drove to Salt Lake and stayed the night with my aunt. That night on the news there were tons of stories about avalanches and all sorts of scary things because of the horrible weather. We didn't sleep really well, but got on the road by 7:30 am. We drove through tons of snow, actually, Marc drove while I held onto the seat, I was so scared! I do not like snow one bit! The whole tome he drove there was snow falling, plows at every exit, and we couldn't see more than 40 feet in front of us, if that! We had already planned on going through Vegas on the was since Flagstaff was getting about 14 inches of snow! As we got to St. George it was snowing and raining, We planned on stopping there but Marc didn't realize how small it was and drove right through it! From there it rained...HARD!
Here is the snow my hubby so lovingly drove through about 2 hours outside of SLC, it just got worse!


About an hour outside of Vegas Marc decided that he couldn't drive anymore, so he gave me the privilege! The rain seemed to get harder as I started driving. We also made the mistake of printing directions off of google maps and not mapquest, there is a big difference! We felt like we were so lost, it took us on so many little roads! But we made it to the Hoover Dam! Usually it takes a long time to get through, but it was pretty empty! Unfortunately, there was an accident that had just happened, since the tow trucks hadn't come yet, we only had to wait 15 minutes! The roads through there were pretty slick, we saw a sweet blue Mustang that had spun off the road. The lady's front tires were on the road, her back tires were on the mountain, so her car was level, but there was a good three foot ditch underneath the car! She looked fine, but I was so scared, there were cars sliding everywhere! Luckily we made it through that and crossed back into AZ! We made it from SLC to Phoenix in about 13 hours, we did stop twice to eat, but despite the weather we were pretty proud of ourselves! Now we are enjoying the 50 degree temps, and the absence of snow everywhere! We will keep you posted, there is lots to come!
This is the canyon on the way into the Hoover Dam, the clouds were so low and it was so cold! We were glad to get out of there safely!